Hole in the Ceiling

This game is awesome. Even when it’s ridiculously hard it’s fun, and it does get hard. Definitely check out the demo.

I’m happy to announce the release of a plugin for XBMC. I know some of you have been asking for it. Go to the plugins page to download.

Yep, it still rocks. Quicksilver ß57 (Snow Leopard only)

Wear a blue beanie.

I have received multiple requests about a plugin for EyeTV. I don’t have the EyeTV software so making a plugin required some help from someone who does. Thankfully some of those wanting the plugin were able to provide me with the info that I needed.

It works in Snow Leopard and is available on the Front Row Plugins page.

Special thanks go out to Roger Quinton and Claudelee for making this happen.

A few users requested a plugin for launching the MythTV frontend so I added one. It works in Snow Leopard and is available on the Front Row Plugins page.

There is now a page that has links to all the Front Row plugins along with info about installation, uninstallation, etc. It’s here.

Those of you upgrading to Snow Leopard will discover that my previous plugins for Front Row won’t work.

The good news is that I have new plugins that work in Snow Leopard. These plugins have been completely rewritten using Objective-C (which I have been wanting to do) and are no longer based on the FrontPython project. This should lead to more stable code that is a little easier for me to improve.

The bad news is that they are still a little buggy. They should launch your program fine but will most likely not be able to return to FrontRow when you exit the launched program. There are probably some other bugs too.

Even though they still need a little work Snow Leopard comes out today so I figured I should get something out. These work in Leopard too (I haven’t tried them in Tiger).

• Boxee Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard
• Plex Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard
• Hulu Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard

If you are still running Leopard and want to use the previous versions they are still available using the links in the original blog posts.

Here are my predictions for this year.

1. We’ll see an updated version of the iPhone with more storage and a compass. If it has a video camera that would be awesome but I won’t hold my breath.
2. We’ll see the announcement of the release of Snow Leopard in August or September. I think Apple will also announce that it will be a free upgrade for Leopard users. They did this for some of the earlier versions of OS X and given the nature of this release I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it again. Especially with the release of Windows 7 this year.
3. Snow Leopard will have the new ‘Marble’ UI theme that has been rumored
4. I don’t think we’ll see the infamous media tablet that everyone likes to speculate about. However, I do think iPhone developers may get some info about how future device sizes will be handled.
5. Like many others I think it would be awesome if Steve Jobs appeared at the keynote but he won’t.

UPDATE: For a version that works in Snow Leopard see this post

Hulu has released a desktop client called Hulu Desktop. I’ve had some requests to make a Front Row Plugin to support Hulu Desktop. Since Hulu is the main reason I started using Boxee and made my Front Row Boxee Plugin it only seemed right. So, here it is:

Download FrontRowHulu.

BEFORE you run this you should have at least run the Hulu Desktop once to accept their EULA. If you don’t the plugin will think it wasn’t able to launch Hulu Desktop. I would also suggest switching it to full screen mode.
Also, like with my other plugins it is assumed that Hulu Desktop lives in /Applications. Also like the others, it is recommended that you restart Front Row after installing the plugin by running
killall Front\ Row
at the command line.

This can be used along side my other Front Row plugins without conflict.